Transcription of CHAPTER - V WATER HARVESTING – PRESENT PRACTICES
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CHAPTER - V WATER HARVESTING – PRESENT PRACTICES
CHAPTER - V WATER HARVESTING PRESENT PRACTICES 15 CHAPTER - V WATER HARVESTING PRESENT PRACTICES PRACTICES IN VOGUE Inspite of large-scale development of surface and ground WATER through major, medium and minor projects by the government, the rural people in different parts of the country still have to depend on traditional WATER HARVESTING to meet their WATER requirements. The techniques and methods used vary from region to region depending upon their specific problems, nature of terrain, climate, hydrogeological conditions etc. Though the objective of WATER HARVESTING in most cases is to augment WATER availability for irrigation, these also afford indirect benefits for recharging drinking WATER wells and hand pumps. In many areas, where WATER HARVESTING has been practiced together with afforestation and other methods of watershed development and land improvement, dried up aquifers have been charged and WATER is available in abundance from ground WATER sources.
cattle. These practices can be seen in Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh etc. 5.7 SPRING WATER HARVESTING In the Lahaul and Spiti areas of Himachal Pradesh, water from hill streams are diverted through small excavated channels, called Kuls, for domestic use and irrigation. In Jammu region they pronounce it as Kuhals.
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